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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The judge is convinced that Flagg is following him in the shape of what?

2. Randall Flagg wants to behead the group and place their heads on what?

3. Who is ambushed by two men and dies?

4. What was Glen Bateman's profession before the plague?

5. What is the boy Joe's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the group take to stop their dreams about the Dark Man?

2. What does it mean that Stu Redman is not sick like his friends in Arnette?

3. Which characters survive at the end of the novel?

4. What is the Hand of God?

5. Why can Flagg not remember who he is when he wakes up on an island at the end of the book?

6. What happens to Harold and Nadine when they are riding west on their motorcycles?

7. Why did Randall Flagg kill Harold?

8. Tom and Nick leave Julie behind in Kansas after she tries to do what to them?

9. Why is the Dark Man so afraid of Mother Abigail?

10. How is "The Kid" killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Larry Underwood's character development over the course of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Some of the characters discussed, W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," poem which was written after the First World War. Do you think that it sets the tone for the entire book?

Essay Topic 3

The main characters all start to have nightmares of Randall Flagg in a high place, most clearly in Nick's dream of being offered his hearing and a voice. Could this be a possible biblical reference?

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